I’m worried about AI. I’m not worried about it taking my job. I believe AI is a genuine productivity tool. By which I mean it can make developers produce more. Learn faster. Dig deeper. See farther. The question is whether those developers are producing something good or not. The difference … Read more
On Wednesday, the World Economic Forum (WEF) released its Future of Jobs Report 2025, with CNN immediately highlighting the finding that 40 percent of companies plan workforce reductions due to AI automation. But the report’s broader analysis paints a far more nuanced picture than CNN’s headline suggests: It finds that AI could create 170 million … Read more
Sonos has kicked off its first major sale of 2025, offering up to 25 percent off select home theater audio equipment through February 9. This includes discounts on the Sonos Arc soundbar ($749), as well as various discounted bundles, many of which are deals we haven’t tracked since the holidays. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate … Read more
Several months ago, we first heard rumors about Samsung’s alleged tri-fold phone — a device that would rival the Huawei Mate XT — after leaker Yeux1122 shared information on a South Korean social media page. Now that same tipster is back with a supposed name for the product: the Samsung Galaxy G Fold. He also … Read more
Samsung DeX is fun and reliable enough that I’m able to do all of my desktop-related tasks from a docked phone! Still, while I’ve already gone all-in on DeX, that doesn’t mean there aren’t improvements I’d like to see. 7 Support for Multiple Monitors Bertel King / How-To Geek Many of us are accustomed to … Read more
William RatcliffFormer IEEE Region 3 directorLife senior member, 80; died 20 June Ratcliff was the 2008–2009 director of IEEE Region 3 (Southeastern United States). An active IEEE volunteer, he led efforts to change the IEEE Regional Activities board to the IEEE Member and Geographic Activities board. He also helped develop and launch the IEEE MOVE … Read more
Andrew Rogers BBC Newsbeat BBC Racers, start your engines, and may the best smell, win! Modern video games look and sound more realistic than they ever have. But there’s one sense developers have yet to exploit – smell. Imagine playing as Mario, pirouetting through the Mushroom Kingdom as a waft of a Fire Flower power-up … Read more
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, made a striking admission on Friday that his company has been “on the wrong side of history” regarding open source AI, signaling a potential seismic shift in strategy as competition from … Read more
OpenAI On the last day of OpenAI’s 12 days of ‘shipmas,’ the company unveiled its latest models, o3 and o3-mini, which excel at reasoning and even outperform o1 on a series of benchmarks, including math and science. At launch, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said o3 was slated to drop at the end of January, and … Read more
TikTok may be back online, but the app’s future in the United States is still far from certain. President Donald Trump’s executive order of the ban was only a temporary reprieve for the company. While ByteDance was once resistant to the idea of selling TikTok’s US business, that seems to have changed since Trump took … Read more